OSPI-Developed Performance Assessments for the Arts

OSPI has developed assessments for The Arts that can be used by teachers in classrooms throughout the school year to gauge student understanding of the learning standards for dance, music, theatre, and visual arts.

Art in Action (2018) Students are asked to choreograph a solo dance based
on a work of visual art.

The Audition (2018) Students are asked to memorize a short dance and
create, perform, and respond about a variation based on the memorized dance.

Moving Toward Alignment (2018) Students are asked to create warm-up
sequences to develop alignment and flexibility in two different styles of
dance or activities.

World Dance Cultures
(2018) Students are asked to watch videos of dances from
two different cultures and be prepared to respond to a series of questions
and prompts.

Youth and the Arts (2018) Students are asked to individually choreograph a short
dance including choosing the subject and music.

Music

Elementary

Zoo Tunes (2015) Students are asked to notate, and perform, with voice or
instrument, an original musical composition portraying a chosen animal.

What a Find! (2018) The students are asked to create a rhythmic pattern based
on given notations, arrange it into a rondo form (ABACA), and sight read and
play the rhythmic pattern using body percussion.

Come to the Fair (2018) Students are asked to listen to and compare and
contrast two musical compositions.

Cat Food Commercial
(2015) Students are asked to create, compose and perform a commercial that demonstrates an understanding of how tempo, rhythm, and dynamics relate to the cat food.

All-Star Cast (2018) Students are asked to sight-sing two measures of
music.

Cartoon Soundtrack (2015) Students are asked to create four measure long music for a cartoon soundtrack.

Middle School

All-State All-Stars (2018) Students are asked to perform a sight-singing
exercise of four measures of music.

Commercial Jingle (formerly Bubble Gum Jingle) (2018) Students are asked to create and perform a jingle, using voice or instrument, for a
new kind of bubble gum.

Roller Coaster Fanatic (2015) Students are asked to create a theme, using
voice or an instrument, showing a person's feelings when riding a roller
coaster as a theme for a computer game.

Festival Time Ensemble (2015) Students are asked to select a musical
piece which they will research, analyze, and then perform, using voice
or an instrument in a small ensemble.

Festival Time Solo
(2015) Students are asked to form small ensembles of two, three, or four
people and select music to fit their group.

Pit Orchestra Audition (2015) Students are asked to sight read the rhythms,
note patterns, and dynamics in eight measures of music for strings.

Music Review (2018) Students are asked to write a review of a piece of
music the teacher has played for them.

Stepping to the Rhythm (2015) Students are asked to sight-read the rhythms
in eight measures of music and use body percussion or voice to perform them.

High School

The Melody of Your Dreams (2018) Students are asked to create a musical
composition with a "catchy" melody for voice or instrument that may be used in
an advertisement for a car advertisement.

Documentary Theme Song
(2015) Students will be asked to create a music composition using a music sequencing computer program or a music notation computer program.

Festival Time Solo
(2015) Students are asked to form small ensembles of two, three, or four
people and select music to fit their group.

Festival Time Ensemble (2015) Students are asked to select a musical
piece which they will research, analyze, and then perform, using voice or an
instrument.

Sounds of Music (2018) Students are asked to sight read the rhythms, note
patterns, and dynamics in eight measures of mixed meter music for woodwind
brass and percussion.

Pit Orchestra Audition (2015) Students are asked to sight read the rhythms,
note patterns, and dynamics in eight measures of mixed meter music for
strings.

Prime Time TV (2015) Students are asked to compose (or select) and
perform a theme song and three variations.